Niantic Primes Its Lightship AR Engine for Transformers Game, Global Launch Slated for 2021

With the tagline “More Than Meets the Eye,” the Transformers franchise was pretty much preordained to have its own augmented reality game, and AR gaming pioneer Niantic has stepped up to fulfill that destiny. Niantic will now join forces with toymakers Hasbro and Tomy and development studio Very Very Games to build Transformers: Heavy Metal on its Lightship AR cloud platform. Don’t Miss: Niantic Bringing Buddy Interactions to AR+ Mode in Pokémon GO, Shared Experiences with Other Trainers to Follow Based on images of gameplay provided by Niantic, Transformers: Heavy Metal follows the formula… more